Leap can't login

English Install/Boot/Login
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I can’t login, after I type my password, screen flickers for a sec or so, and I am back at the login screen.

It does not matter which of the three option I have, I pick.

AMD phenom II X4 at stock 3.2ghz Geforce 750GT.

What went before:

I was happy with 13.1 and tried to install 13.2, but failed 5 times, and gave up.
Now with leap I tried again, and prob found the problem why I failed with 13.2. I need to change the disk order during the installation set up.
Pc is dual boot Linux (opensuse) and win7 32 bit.

After some web searching, I tried ctrl alt F1, at the login screen, to login on the command line, that seems to work fine. I can login as normal users and as root. (and start yast)
Then pressing ctrl F7 however brings me back to the same login screen.

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One common cause of such behavior is lack of free space on the /root partition.
Check your disk, maybe delete a few snapshots if you have BTRFS… possibly enlarge the partition or free up some space…

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No brtfs here :slight_smile:

When I installed leap, I changed a few things, one was to use ext4.
The other one the disk order.

I did not format my home directory. I wonder if that could cause these issues ?

I could give installing another try, and then format home too. ( not my preferred solution though)

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Ext4 and reused (not formatted) /home here too, and I saw no such thing on my main install.
Since you are able to login on the command line, the basic system seems sound and /home should not be involved at this (login) stage.
Seems like a display manager issue: are you using sddm (Plasma5 default)? Can you try lightdm, for instance?
I saw similar things with Plasma5 and sddm on VirtualBox installs when the (virtual) disk was next to full; I got back to normal after extending the /root partition by 4-5 GB.
HTH

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Try a different user

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Where’s your NVIDIA card in the info you’re providing. Does matter.

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Were ? In a pcie slot ?

Or do you mean Geforce 750GT (1gig ram) gigabyte

I looked in yast and as far as I get it, I am still on the mesa drivers.
When I search nvidia in yast nothing is found. I also dont think, I have the nvidia repo installed either.

How do I make a new user, and will it share the same home folder ?

I cannot start that other desktop either, same problem within 2 sec back at login screen.

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You have to add the NVIDIA repo it is not set up automagically. It is listed in the community repos. In yast repository management

In yast there is a user&fgroups section where you can add users. It will have a home in the /home partition/directory but it will be under the new users name.

You may simply be out of space if other desktops will not start. Which other did you try and how much space did you give the root partition?

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Thank you
Root partition is 20 gig ext 4.

Home is 500 gig minus root and swap.

Will try to make a new user.

And see if I manage to add nvidia repository.

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Installed a program on windows, so that I can see the Linux partitions.

Basis swap 2054 MB

Basic ext4 root 20 gig 5gig used

Basic ext4 443 gig 145gig used

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Those partitions look OK for an EXT4 install, so no space problem.
Try booting with “nomodeset” kernel option, that means only basic graphics but at least you should be able to login and try to fix Nvidia…

At boot press the “E” key, look for a line beginning with “linux” (or “linuxefi” depending on your install), append ‘nomodeset’ without quotes at the end, press F10 to boot.
HTH